I guess these people are so void of imagination that they can't come up with any other activity except getting drunk. I just don't understand the appeal of barfing in a gutter and staggering homeor being hauled off to some stinking police drunk tank for the night. IMHO the Brits are taking the stereotypical stinking drunks title away from the Irish..It's even worse that they take theirvacations to Spain,Greece and Turkey and do the same thing. Barfing, peeing and fighting their vacation away in foreign countries..

Mr. Shabooboo:I guess these people are so void of imagination that they can't come up with any other activity except getting drunk. I just don't understand the appeal of barfing in a gutter and staggering homeor being hauled off to some stinking police drunk tank for the night. IMHO the Brits are taking the stereotypical stinking drunks title away from the Irish..It's even worse that they take theirvacations to Spain,Greece and Turkey and do the same thing. Barfing, peeing and fighting their vacation away in foreign countries..

That's what happens when you are truly repressed. You drink to lose control. Many Americans are just as bad.

nulluspixiusdemonica:Mr. Shabooboo: I just don't understand the appeal of barfing in a gutter and staggering homeor being hauled off to some stinking police drunk tank for the night

Personally, I don't get folks who read filler pieces and automatically assume they are 100% accurate reflections of reality...

Should we re-visit the multitude of other "filler" pieces on the problems of drunken Brits? The ones about them taking drinking vacations in Greece and Turkey mainly because ofcheap alcohol, and it being warmer than barfing in gutters at home..

Cymbal:Mr. Shabooboo: I guess these people are so void of imagination that they can't come up with any other activity except getting drunk. I just don't understand the appeal of barfing in a gutter and staggering homeor being hauled off to some stinking police drunk tank for the night. IMHO the Brits are taking the stereotypical stinking drunks title away from the Irish..It's even worse that they take theirvacations to Spain,Greece and Turkey and do the same thing. Barfing, peeing and fighting their vacation away in foreign countries..

That's what happens when you are truly repressed. You drink to lose control. Many Americans are just as bad.

I'm glad I'm not one of those people..

FarkinNortherner:Mr. Shabooboo: hauled off to some stinking police drunk tank for the night

You have to try really, really, hard to get arrested merely for being drunk in the UK. Mostly because the entire criminal justice system would grind to a halt in about two days.

Don't they have drunk tanks at the police stations? People aren't really arrested, but they haul them in and dump them in a room to sober up and send them home?

Mr. Shabooboo:Don't they have drunk tanks at the police stations? People aren't really arrested, but they haul them in and dump them in a room to sober up and send them home?

No, in England and Wales* to be detained in a cell you would have to be arrested**. Although being drunk in a public place is illegal, arrests are almost always made for being drunk and disorderly or for public order offences.

It used to be the case that being so drunk you pass out in the street could result in arrest, but this is now very uncommon. Treatment in a place of safety is the more frequent response. Not entirely surprisingly, medical practitioners are less than delighted that hospital waiting rooms get used as drunk tanks so some cities have 'alcohol recovery centres' where the very drunk can be treated and kept safe.

London has 'booze buses', multi-person ambulances which provide sub-emergency medical care on-site to the very drunk. These operate in the West End three nights a week. The police can take you to a booze bus or ARC, and you'd be very foolish to refuse to go, but neither is a place of detention.

*Scotland and NI are different**with some caveats, irrelevant in this instance

on the road:I don't know why Nottingham doesn't take a link from Amsterdam:

[i2.photobucket.com image 300x225]

/Helps with the cleanup

I wonder,What the hell is going on on the plaza (or what ever they call it in Amsterdam) that the should put accommodations for up to pissers.Isn't it a bit rude, setting it up in the middle of the plaza?What about those who do not pee standing up?Where to vomit?